Bethany Bell
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172 appearances
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 29 Aug
Bethany Bell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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There are three main reasons why the European Commission has found after a two-year investigation that Elon Musk's social network X is not compliant with EU law.
It said the blue ticks that the network uses are deceptive because they used to be a sign that an account holder had been verified by the platform itself.
And now they're a sign that someone has subscribed.
But what the EC says is that anybody could subscribe online.
and then potentially be a scammer or be impersonating someone else.
And so they're not a reliable mark of authenticity anymore.
It also said that the advertising policies weren't transparent enough.
There were blurred lines between content and adverts, and it wasn't always clear how the adverts were being targeted.
And finally, it said X had not been sharing data with researchers, which is another component of the EU law.
We have not yet had a comment from X itself.
To them, it's not an awful lot of money.
And it could have been a lot worse, actually.
The fine can be up to 6% of annual turnover.
The European Commission says it hasn't gone for that.
It's gone for a modest fine that it feels is proportionate.
What X has to do now is to start showing that it is prepared to comply with the law.
And if it doesn't, it might face further fines down the line.
The Pope has been showing improvements over recent days. The Vatican bulletins have shown an improvement in the stability of his health. And today, the doctors who've been treating him at the Gemelli Hospital in Rome said that the Pope was now able to be discharged. They said that he had...
had very serious crises during the time he was in hospital to what they call life-threatening episodes, but that he'd never been intubated and he'd always remained alert and oriented. Now they say he's in a stable clinical condition.
He'll be allowed to go home, but he needs to have two months at least, they say, of convalescence and with drug therapy and rest so that he can improve and start work again.
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